6D5N Cairns Great Barrier Reef (SIC) & Port Douglas Self Drive (Daily Dep)

Package Includes : 

- 3 nights stay Crystalbrook Riley Cairns 

- 2 nights stay at Freestyle Port Douglas 

- Daily Breakfast in Cairns

- 1 way SIC airport transfers from Cairns airport to hotel

- 3 Days car rental unlimited KMs pick up from Cairns City and drop off airport.

- Full Day Great Barrier Reef Dive & Snorkel with Helicopter flight 

- Hot Air Balloon 

- Full Day Grand Kuranda Tour

- Hartley's Crocodile Adventures

- Full Day Mossman Gorge Adventure Day with River Drift Snorkelling Tour

Day 1 

Upon arrival, catch a seat in transfer to hotel. Please note that the hotel's standard check-in time is 3:00 pm, so your room may not be ready. You can leave your luggage with the concierge and explore Cairns City in the meantime.

Riley A Crystalbrook Collection Resort (Crystalbrook Riley)

 Address: 131/141 Esplanade, Cairns City QLD 4870, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4252 7777

Remarks: Hotel Standard Check-in Time: 3:00pm, Hotel Standard Check-out Time: 10:00am

Suggested Lunch at Rocco by Crystalbrook Riley, the city's highest rooftop bar and restaurant with 270-degree panoramic views of Cairns and the Coral Sea (own expenses).

Freely explore Cairns City, including Cairns Esplanade, Cairns Lagoon, Cairns Central Shopping Mall, and Cairns Night Market.

2.45pm - Meet at Bad Fishy departure point, Berth A1 Marlin Marina, Cairns City

3.00pm - Enjoy a high-speed thrill ride along the Cairns waterfront

3.35pm - Experience Bad Fishy Jetboating: where you can add an adrenaline rush to your Cairns experience.

Bad Fishy Jet Boating

Address: Marlin Parade Berth A1, The Marlin Marina,

Cairns City QLD 4870, Australia

Phone: +61 499 490 030

7.00pm Dinner at Hemingway's Brewery Cairns Wharf (own expenses)

Address: Wharf St, Cairns City

QLD 4870, Australia

Phone: +61 482 173

Day 2 

Please travel to the Reef Fleet Terminal for your day trip to Moore Reef, including a 10-minute scenic helicopter flight over the Great Barrier Reef.

8.15am - Check in at the Reef Fleet Terminal, 1 Spence Street.

9.00am - Boarding closes

9.30am - Boat departs Cairns

11.30am - Boat arrives at Moore Reef

3.30pm - Boat departs Moore Reef

5.00pm - Boat returns to Cairns, disembark

5.30pm - Sunlover Reef Cruises

Address: Reef Fleet Terminal (Bottom floor, 1 Spence St, Cairns City

QLD 4870, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4050 1333

Confirmation: Scenic Flight #2042216

Remarks: On the day of your reef tour, you can check in at the Sunlover reservations desk inside the Reef Fleet Terminal. Have your booking confirmation on hand to present to our team. You will be issued with boarding passes and given directions to the Sunlover catamaran.

Note, seasonal departure times may apply.

Flight departure time will be provided by the Helicopter Crew - Please check-in with Helicopter Crew as soon as you board the vessel for your flight time, meeting point and safety briefing. 10 minute scenic flight ex Sunlover Cruises' Moore Reef Pontoon.

Dundees on the Waterfront

Address: 1 Marlin Parade, Cairns City

QLD 4870, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4051 0399

Day 3 | 

Hot Air Ballooning Tour

3.50am - Please be ready and waiting in your hotel lobby for Hot Air Balloon

4.00am - Cairns pick-up.

Hot Air Balloon Cairns

Address: 6 Abbott St, Cairns City

QLD 4870, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4039 9900

9.00am - You will be drop off at Skyrail Smithfield Station for your Grand Kuranda Tour with Tropic Wings

Remarks: Tropic Wings driver will meet Edwin and Rachel at Smithfield Skyrail Terminal (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tcyeYmHAX5R2qDUV9) at 9:00-9:15am the latest.

Just in case you miss the driver. The driver will leave the itinerary and the tickets at Skyrail ticket office for you to collect.

The CaPTA Group - Tropic Wings

Address: 278 Hartley St, Bungalow QLD 4870, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4041 9400

Remarks: Classic Kuranda Tour (Reverse=Skyrail first then Train back to Cairns) from Smithfield.

9:30am - Skyrail boarding time

10:30am - Arrive to Kuranda village (free time). Please make your way to Australian Butterfly Sanctuary

11:00am - Entry to Australian Butterfly Sanctuary

11:45am - Shuttle Bus to Rainforestation Nature Park. Shuttle Bus Stop is just outside main entrance of Australian Butterfly Sanctuary.

12:00pm - Visit to Rainforestation Nature Park (lunch, Army Duck tour, Pamagirri 3.00pm Aboriginal experience, Wildlife park)

3.00pm - Shuttle bus from Rainforestation Nature Park to Kuranda Railway Station

3.30pm - Scenic Train Departs from Kuranda

5.15pm - Arrive to Cairns Central Station

5.15pm - Please meet with Tropic Wings driver to drop you off to the hotel.

Remarks: Due to centralized pick-up Edwin and Rachel will be dropped off at DoubleTree by Hilton hotel which is just 3 minutes’ walk

from Crystalbrook Riley. Please see walking map here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9QnqSRiCb77d6N458

7.00pm - Dinner at Prawn Star (own expenses)

Address: Pier Point Road | Marlin Marina, E31 Berth, Cairns City

QLD 4870, Australia

Phone: +61 497 007 225

Day 4 

9.00am - Pick up your car rental at Europcar Cairns City and start your road trip to the Great Barrier Reef Drive to Port Douglas.

Europcar Cairns City

Address: Cairns Square, Corner Shield & Abbott Street

QLD 4870 Cairns

Tel: +61 7 4033 4800

A stop at Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures, 40 km (40 minutes) north of Cairns, 15 minutes north of Palm Cove and 25 km south of Port Douglas.

10.30am - Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures, including Croc feeding experience.

Hartley's Crocodile Adventure

Address: Captain Cook Hwy, Wangetti

QLD 4877, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4055 3576

Confirmation: #197970514 (Confirmed by Angela Freeman)

Lunch at own expenses, recommended at Hartley’s Crocodile Adventure Café before check-in.

3.00pm - Check in to Freestyle Resort Port Douglas

Address: 47 Davidson St, Port Douglas QLD 4877, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4099 0799

Remarks: Hotel Standard Check-in Time: 3:00pm, Hotel Standard Check-out Time: 10:00am

Free & easy explore Port Douglas

7:45pm - Dinner at Salsa Bar & Grill (own expenses) 

Address: 26 Wharf St, Port Douglas

QLD 4877, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4099 4922

Day 5 | 

Mossman Gorge Adventure Day with River Drift Snorkelling Tour

Have breakfast at hotel before pick up (own expenses)

8:35am - Please be ready and waiting in your hotel lobby for pick up by Back Country Bliss for the day tour

Back Country Bliss

Address: PO Box 188, Port Douglas QLD 4877

Phone: +61 07 4099 3677

Remarks: Pick up time at 08:35am at Freestyle Resort Port Douglas.

All Pickup times are approximate, we will advise you on any changes

WHAT TO BRING

• Shoes suitable for walking up to 3.5km/2mi on uneven terrain (may get wet).

• Swimwear

• Towel

• Camera

• Any personal medications

Beginning the day at a secret location on the Mossman River for our one of a kind River Drift Snorkelling tour; searching for turtles, water dragons and the elusive platypus.

After a well earned lunch, enjoy a traditional Kuku Yalanji smoking ceremony at the Mossman Gorge; where you’ll be cleansed of bad spirits and have traditional rainforest body paint applied.

Exploring the Daintree National Park at an easy pace, this interpretive 1.5hr walk, will leave you with a deeper understanding of this breath-taking rainforest.

Dinner at own expenses.

Day 6 | 

Breakfast at leisure (own expenses)

10.00am - Check out and self-drive back to Cairns; stopover at Palm Cove for lunch at own expenses. Enjoy your meal with the soothing sound of waves and panoramic ocean views where it’s an ideal setting for a leisurely lunch.

3.35pm - Arrive Cairns Airport to drop off the car rental at Europcar Cairns Airport

Address: Terminal Building, Cairns City

QLD 4870, Australia

Tel: +61 7 4034 9088

Drop off car for your departure flight back home